About the Authors
Mike Chapple, PhD, CISSP, is an author of the best-selling CySA+ Study Guide and CISSP (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional Official Study Guide, now in its eighth edition. He is an information security professional with two decades of experience in higher education, the private sector, and government.
Mike currently serves as an associate teaching professor of IT, analytics, and operations at the University of Notre Dame, where he teaches courses focused on cybersecurity and business analytics.
Before returning to Notre Dame, Mike served as executive vice president and chief information officer of the Brand Institute, a Miami-based marketing consultancy. Mike also spent four years in the information security research group at the National Security Agency and served as an active duty intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force.
He is a technical editor for Information Security Magazine and has written 20 books, including Cyberwarfare: Information Operations in a Connected World (Jones & Bartlett, 2015), CompTIA Security+ Training Kit (Microsoft Press, 2013), and CISSP Study Guide (Sybex, 2017).
Mike earned both his BS and PhD degrees from Notre Dame in computer science and engineering. He also holds an MS in computer science from the University of Idaho and an MBA from Auburn University.
David Seidl is the senior director for Campus Technology Services at the University of Notre Dame and is responsible for central platform and operating system support, virtualization, database administration and services, identity and access management, application services, enterprise content and document management, lab and lectern computing, digital signage, and academic printing. Prior to his current role, he was Notre Dame’s director of information security.
David has co-authored CompTIA CySA+ Study Guide: Exam CS0-001 (Sybex, 2017), CISSP Official (ISC)2 Practice Tests (Sybex, 2016), CompTIA Security+ Training Kit (Microsoft Press, 2013), and Cyberwarfare: Information Operations in a Connected World (Jones & Bartlett, 2015) with Mike Chapple, and he has served as the technical editor for the sixth and seventh editions of CISSP Study Guide (Sybex, seventh edition, 2015). David holds a bachelor’s degree in communication technology and a master’s degree in information security from Eastern Michigan University, as well as CISSP, CySA+, GPEN, and GCIH certifications.